Year Six:Happy Divorce

1.

Elena Moreno never imagined that on her birthday, her son would hand her a peanut butter cup lethal enough to send her into anaphylactic shock.

As consciousness faded, she heard Asher Whitmore's furious reprimand.

"Knox Whitmore, did you not know your mother is deathly allergic to peanuts?"

Knox's young voice cut through with terrible clarity.

"I know. But I want Olivia to be my mom."

"Dad, you want that too, don't you?"

"Even if I..."

A violent wave of suffocation crashed over her. S